Linda Blackburn

Linda Blackburn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in North Carolina and is also authorized to practice in Virginia. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from East Carolina University in 1993 and completed an Advanced Standing Master of Social Work program at East Carolina University in 1994. Before moving into social work, she spent eleven years as a Registered Nurse working with adolescents and adults in psychiatric nursing, and in 1992 she chose to pursue social work with the goal of becoming an LCSW. She received her clinical social work license in 1995.

Her clinical background includes extensive outpatient counseling, including more than ten years as the owner of her own private practice as well as work in other outpatient settings. While she has experience with a range of diagnoses and behavioral concerns, her primary clinical focus has been the treatment of anxiety and depression. She is a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP). For twelve years she served as a seminar instructor for continuing education groups, leading day-long trainings on grief, bereavement, and loss therapy for both death-related and non-death-related loss. Over the past ten years she has also worked as an adjunct professor in social work at Shaw University in Raleigh, teaching entry-level social work courses.

Linda emphasizes the importance of developing trusting therapeutic relationships and using an open, team-oriented approach to counseling that supports effective outcomes. Her approach to treatment is eclectic and is tailored to each person’s specific needs and circumstances. She places high value on respect, sensitivity, compassion, and a consistently nonjudgmental stance, and she focuses on understanding and accepting people where they are before shaping a treatment plan that fosters personal growth.

In recent years she has expanded her clinical perspective by incorporating treatment strategies informed by principles of neuroscience into her work. She recognizes that reaching out for help can feel frightening and confusing, and she acknowledges the significance of that first step. Linda looks forward to working collaboratively with clients to support progress toward a better life.

She holds professional licensure to practice clinical social work in North Carolina and Virginia, listed as NC LCSW C002773 and VA LCSW 0904004997, reflecting her state authorizations to provide clinical social work services.